By Their Own Compass
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Historian Jeremiah Jenne and journalist Sarah Keenlyside bring you stories of historical travelers, the places they went, and the people they encountered.
(After all, one person's frontier is another person's front door.)
(After all, one person's frontier is another person's front door.)
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Ibn Battuta
Taking the long way from Turkey to India
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October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Link to episode: bytheirowncompass.substack.com/p/ibn-battut...
From Hannibal's elephants to Viking logs worth more than stone houses, sometimes the best historical records weren't written with ink.
Read more in this edition of our Compass Dispatches Newsletter, a digest about historical travel and historical travelers.
open.substack.com/pub/bytheiro...
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Read more in this edition of our Compass Dispatches Newsletter, a digest about historical travel and historical travelers.
open.substack.com/pub/bytheiro...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
From Hannibal's elephants to Viking logs worth more than stone houses, sometimes the best historical records weren't written with ink.
Read more in this edition of our Compass Dispatches Newsletter, a digest about historical travel and historical travelers.
open.substack.com/pub/bytheiro...
(2/2)
Read more in this edition of our Compass Dispatches Newsletter, a digest about historical travel and historical travelers.
open.substack.com/pub/bytheiro...
(2/2)